CEdipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore years, And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men. Western Medical Review - Page 6081908Full view - About this book
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1875 - 170 pages
...prize of verse from his compeers, When each had iruubered more than fourscore years, And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters...nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales ; Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were past. These are indeed exceptions... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1875 - 170 pages
...prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore years, And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters...nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales; Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were pa'st. These are indeed exceptions;... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1875 - 946 pages
...prize of verso from his compeers, When each had numbered moro than fourscore years; And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters...with the nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Talee; Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were past. These are... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 634 pages
...prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore year* . And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters...nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales ; Goethe, at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were past. These are, indeed, exceptions... | |
| 1877 - 1014 pages
...prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore years ; And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his characters of men. Chaucer at Woodstock, with his nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales ; Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 400 pages
...fourscore years, And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men. stood. Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales; Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were past. These are indeed exceptions... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 660 pages
...prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore years ; And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters...nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales ; Goethe, at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were past. These are, indeed, exceptions... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 216 pages
...prize of verse from his compeers When each had numbered more than fourscore years ; And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters...nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales ; Goethe, at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were past. These are indeed exceptions... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 442 pages
...prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore years, And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters...nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales ; Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were past. These are indeed .exceptions... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 528 pages
...Inn, .Souihw.uk. ancient of the inns of Southwark," and which had become for ever celebrated, when " Chaucer, at Woodstock, with the nightingales, At sixty, wrote the Canterbury tales." * Up to a few years before its destruction it was marked by an inscription, which said, "This is the... | |
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